The resistance to medical marijuana couldn’t be any stronger than the resistance of those who control professional and amateur sports. The fact is the media propaganda government lies that were putting the clamps on hemp since 1936 to protect some threatened vested industrial interests with friends in high positions became an accepted social stigma that has held for decades.

Where there are bureaucrats you’ll find resistance to things good and healthy, even in sports. I did an article on how the current opioid epidemic has turned some teen athletes into heroin junkies after their opioid painkiller prescriptions couldn’t get filled anymore.

Now some players involved in or retired from the most chronic pain enduring sport, football, are trying to stir the fixed consciousness of the NFL plutocracy into recognizing pot as a non-addictive safe painkiller and brain injury protective, including CTE prevention. (Source)

It’s even been clinically proven here in the USA and Israel that cannabis is very useful for resolving opioid painkiller addiction while maintaining pain relief. It even works to help heroin addicts withdraw easily and quickly. Yet cannabis is still considered a Schedule I substance: Medically useless, dangerous, and addictive.

The NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is counting on its own medical experts to determine whether the league should allow medical applications of cannabis for players. That’s the line they used for denying the existence of CTE for well over a decade. So don’t hold your breath guys.

Whenever players flunk the marijuana urine test, they are suspended for quite some time and fined. But the NHL (hockey) doesn’t have marijuana on its prohibited substance list. Sports prohibited substances lists should be for performance enhancing substances only. I don’t think that applies to cannabis.

NFL Medical Marijuana’s First Martyr?

Eugene Monroe, an offensive lineman, was very recently cut from the Baltimore Ravens. He was so outspoken about trying to get the NFL to allow medical marijuana and cut back on opioid painkillers that some thought that’s why he got cut.

It was certainly a contributing factor. But other factors have been mentioned, such as his injury history that kept him out of almost half the action for two seasons and his highly salaried contract during a time when salary caps are causing teams to cut back and recruiting players with lower starting contractual financial agreements.

Still, Eugene’s activities, such as donating $80,000 to The Realm of Caring, an organization connected to Johns Hopkins University and University of Pennyslvania for research into medical marijuana eficacy and safety for sports injuries, had become a newsworthy issue among sports writers.

Eugene even has a website devoted to his cannabis activism, where he states on its home page, “I’m calling for the NFL to remove marijuana from the banned substance list; fund medical marijuana research especially as it it relates to CTE; and stop over prescribing addictive and harmful opioids.

He also has an essay on his site, “Getting Off the T Train”. T stands for Toradol, a strong NSAID (non steroid anti inflammatory drug) which is injected.

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Eugene mentions his awareness of how players still battle with opioid addiction after quitting or getting cut and not picked up by other teams. The $80,000 Eugene contributed to a Realm of Caring fundraiser is primarily for CBD (cannabidiol) neurological protective and curative research. CBD is either no or low THC (the psychoactive compound) .

But the NFL is still thinking like the 1937 prohibitionist Harry Anslinger who first publicly declared cannabis an evil weed and the gateway to opioid addiction and crime. Wait, the NFL already uses opioids and players are getting addicted.

When the Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh was asked by sports scribes about Eugene’s pro-medical marijuana actions, especially the large donation to Realm of Caring, he responded with “I promise you, he does not speak for the organization,”

The realty is that the Realm of Caring is inolved with raising awareness for CBD or cannabidiol to protect against the degenarating ravages of CTE, which comes from repeated physical brain traumas that are not even considered concussions.

Interior linemen, such as Eugene Monroe, are most prone to this level of repeated head trauma. The brain, which is not physically secured in the skull with shock absorption material, instead sort of “floats” in a dense liquid and bounces into the inside of the skull repeatedly.

Here’s a very informative video with a few former players coming forth about CTE and how CBD should be looked into as a preventative against long term neurodegenerative diseases such as CTE.

Paul Fassais a contributing staff writer for REALfarmacy.com. His pet peeves are the Medical Mafia’s control over health and the food industry and government regulatory agencies’ corruption. Paul’s contributions to the health movement and global paradigm shift are well received by truth seekers. Visit his blog by following this link and follow him on Twitter here.